Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, or, A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp: a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites for meate or sauce vsed with vs, and, an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land, together with the right orderinge, planting & preseruing of them and their vses & vertuesParkinson, John
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Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, or, A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp: a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites for meate or sauce vsed with vs, and, an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land, together with the right orderinge, planting & preseruing of them and their vses & vertues
Parkinson, John
Gardening -- Early works to 1800; Gardening -- England -- Early works to 1800
The leaues of this wilde Campion are somewhat like the ordinary white
wilde Campion, but not so large, or rather resembling the leaues of
sweete Williams, but that they grow not so close, nor so many together:
the stalkes haue smaller leaues at the ioynts then those belowe, and
branched at the toppe, with many pale, but bright red flowers, iagged
or cut in on the edges, like the feathered Pinke, whereof some haue
taken it to be a kinde, and some for a kinde of wilde William, but yet
is but a wilde Campion, as may be obserued, both by his huske that
beareth the flowers, and by the greyish roundish seede, being not of
the Family of Pinkes and Gillowers, but (as I said) of the Campions:
the roote is full of strings or fibres.
[Sidenote: _Flore pleno._]
The double kinde is very like vnto the single kinde, but that it is
lower and smaller, and the flowers very double.
8. _Lychnis siluestris flore pleno rubro._ Red Batchelours buttons.
The double wilde Campion (which of our Countrey Gentlewomen is called
Batchelours buttons) is very like both in rootes, leaues, stalkes, and
flowers vnto the ordinary wilde red Campion, but somewhat lesser, his
flowers are not iagged, but smooth, and very thicke and double, so that
most commonly it breaketh his short huske, wherein the flower standeth
on the one side, seldome hauing a whole huske, and are of a reddish
colour.
9. _Lychnis siluestris flore albo pleno._ White Batchelours buttons.
As the leaues of the former double Campion was like vnto the single
kinde that had red flowers, so this hath his leaues like vnto the
single white kinde, differing in no other thing from it, but in the
doublenesse of the flowers, which by reason of the multiplicity of
leaues in them thrusting forth together, breaketh his huskes wherein
the flowers doe stand, as the other doth, and hath scarce one flower in
many that is whole.
10. _Ocymoides arborea semper virens._ Strange Bassil Campion.
This Strange Campion (for thereunto it must bee referred) shooteth
forth many round, whitish, wooddy, but brittle stalkes, whereon stand
diuers long, and somewhat thicke leaues, set by couples, narrow at
the bottome, and broader toward the point, of a very faire greene and
shining colour, so that there is more beauty in the greene leaues,
which doe so alwaies abide, then in the flowers, which are of a pale
red or blush colour, consisting of fiue small long broad pointed
leaues, notched in the middle, which doe not lye close, but loosly as
it were hanging ouer the huskes: after the flowers are past, there come
heads that containe blackish seede: the roote is small, hard, white,
and threadie.
11. _Muscipula Lobelij siue Ben rubrum Monspeliensium._
Lobels Catch Flie.
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